Note: If you do not yet have an SVN client installed, go to http://subversion.tigris.org for information on obtaining an appropriate SVN client for your platform. Most modern Linux/BSD/UNIX distributions will also have SVN available in their package repositories.

If you have doxygen installed somewhere CMake can find it, then you can build a browsable HTML documentation of the source code. This is useful if you want to use BRL-CAD's libraries directly, or if you just want a better overview of how things are structured.

To build the HTML files on a Linux/Mac/BSD system, run (from your build directory):

make dox

and then open doc/doxygen_output/html/index.xhtml with your web browser of choice.

On all systems, you can simply run directly from the build directory without installing.

That said, by default BRL-CAD installs into /usr/brlcad or /opt/brlcad on Linux/Mac/BSD and into the standard program directory on Windows. To check your build or install of BRL-CAD, browse to the "bin" directory from the GUI or from cmd.exe and run "mged".

At this point, all that remains is setting your system PATH environment variable so BRL-CAD utilities can be found. Installation does not set PATH for you automatically.

For Windows, setting PATH can be helpful but isn't necessary. Simply navigate to where you installed BRL-CAD and run from there.

For Linux/Mac/BSD, you'll either need to specify full paths to applications (e.g., /usr/brlcad/bin/rt) or set your PATH. If the default installation prefix (/usr/brlcad or /opt/brlcad) was used, you should only need to add /usr/brlcad/bin to your PATH in order to find applications (optionally setting MANPATH as well):